The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-28

fuUnoo ON WHICH CtipPioS uUuviou |
, the altar with much EFFORT
brown from them on the instant that
hey prayed; and sta6s and stont
ticks numberless; and baudaees, too,
uch q open eores have over them;
nd splints, and many ingenious con.
rivsnces to strengthen structural
weakness and Lessen human pain. Lo,
Irc they not all here In heaps, where
hey have been thrown from the
,ands Of the recovered and healed, "a
With great 10y and happinefs indie.
they dashed the hateful
.hings away, as prisoners might dash
heir chains down on the dungeon
COR when, after long waiting, they
we're suddenly freed Of them. /
"But what do you want TO mako OF
Il, Mr.. MurrayY" some puzzled reader |
may ask. My dear sir, or madam, or |
pld.time friend, / make nothing OF 1t.
don't even try to make anything OF
IL. have done Of asking questions OF
oracles whose lips are more silent tban
stone; hut this ! know, that there be
deep Thugs Il God that no human
plummet may even sound the bottom
Of. I padded professionally over those
depths for years, and dropped my III.
lie plug Of lead fastened TO Q little CAL
whistle Irvine cord, provided every
theological student at the seminaries,
and talked profoundly Of what there
was below the surface Of life, and In
the deep sby sims Of human nature,
and l told men, even az had been
taught, all about God; how He ex-
listed, and why He acted, and what He
would and wouldn't do. ! know now
was fool at the time; not q natural,
but Q professional fool, made 30 by the
Wise fools who taught me such AFRO
canoe aud made me like themselves,
blind TO my own httleness and iguor-
auce, even 40 they were bat blind to
theirs. Bat this one true and sensi-
BILE thing / did, I stopped talking; and
then men called me fool for the only
wise thing 1 had ever done-looked
Of, mean, largely.
No, no, my dear sir, OF madam, or
old time bearer OF my speech, l know
nothing about these wonders wrought,
mercifully wrought, for wretched men
and women at the shrine yonder, IN.
der the Laurentian Hills, save what /
see and known % their results. /
know there mon and women are healed
Of Ills, and those lacking the use OF
needed members are made whole
again, but how they are healed or by
whom, ox by what power or powers,
immediate or intermediate, ] know
not at ell, and an not now, believe me,
even curious 10 know. Enough for
me 10 know that O fragment OF old
time Palestine is In Canada; that the
Sea Of 0alliles emp,ies ono OF liz
ancient springs into the st. lawrence
and that there Ia one spot on the
American continent where theoloaiani
are puzzled. scientisis are silenced
and q positive medicine In operation
that some grasping Yankee cannot
patent and mopopoliEe. Had this Ga
madam Loretto been In the Merrimac
We should have "Sle. Anne Pills" ant
porous PlssierB 10 Ste. Anne
hawed over the whole world, and ia,
grace Of God would have been patente'
and duty labeled.
On the south side Of the II. Law
renee, ju,t below the eastern end Q
the Isle do leans. 10 Hospital island
some two miles by three, perhaps. 7
thu exact area In miles and yards an
feet sm Indifferent. fJr II 10 TO b
measured by tho human suffering fol
upon 10, and not by the surveyor
chain; aud measured 90, II nigh
prove 10 be- the largest island on Oh,
globe. Hospital island Better cal
ID Isle OF Death or Starvation island
for on ID are landed the wretohed emil
grants from Ireland-fugitives, rather
from the Green itle. when the grea
famine lay like q pail on Erin's cot
aud hoveis. Here. famine chased b
this little island In the II. LswIencs
they were brought In Eiglish ship
and landed-thousauds ON thousand
Of poor, gsunt creatures, the rcd gon
from their cheeks, the vigor an
piumpnees from their limbs. tn
once strong man staggered on IN
bosch like q drunken person; IN
shrlveled babe died on the shrive Q
breast, and the mother, faint froi
hupgsr, died, net knowing her bat
was dead.
Thera Ia a grave on yonder iels, ovl
the ttarboard bow, there, the like
which is not on Nil the earth, slbe
death has b zen busy since man vi
, born. There In no monument upo
,, tbs grave, nor mould, nor aowe
, nor shrub; not even a weeping willo
,. or yeu tree upon II, aud men are IA
!, io'seiting whers II is; and yet II vi
! q mighty grave. 90 long and large ih
Il makes q graveyard; for, In IL, ny
In this one gave on yonder islan'
! the bodies OF 6Oo0 Irish men. WON,
! and children wer. laid, and there th,
lie, this sunny Afternoon, mouldeliI
: into finer dust. God tst their sonl
, Hard life they had. and scAnt funerl
Tor hunger had done lie work bio
they left their native shore, end tb,
: dad iat nj landing. They found
: foreign strand and with u found
grave. Brave Irish man; war
hearted Lish women; chubby Iril
, children (; starved and allied BY tyrs
! nv. I, faddens ell the day 20 m
!. tina, must psss 90 near the long. 10
gave where ron are lying. Whei
In all the world IL th,rs Q spot
= earth that has seen 20 much Of hum
). misery as this email Island In the [
= Lasrepoe, made monsrous by q ara
= that might reach hall sofo@ iti
= From Cape TourmenN 10 the II
X Of ~ Paul all IL ~ II was 800 yea
ago. Here nature Keeps her old, be
V bario royalty, and holds her throl
y defiant OF civil ~ Ion. Roads the
~ are none, nor aoy plaoe ioI roads. II
rocky ramparis rice from the water
~ edge In savage grandeur. III
y mouni aiuous slopes are finely soods
y bat the az hiss never made way
y sunlight TO penetrate the dark glrs
- and gloomy rSvinee. A hner suet
y " pfim, val forest than mar be ss,
" alipg the eiopes Of Cape roufmer
- aud the adj ining mountains cam
* be found. IL IL nature rare aud oil
~ ple, nature untouched, unsiain,
% % ampersd with by man. There I
u no houses on the thott, no oleArir
" In the woods, no thiuirg stretch
ni,s besch even, nor did l see a ashe
y, bra, Tor twenty miloa Mao q
W mans work are absent, and natur,